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casehardened

casehardened is the simple past and past participle of caseharden.

Meaning of caseharden

Verb

caseharden (third-person singular simple present casehardens, present participle casehardening, simple past and past participle casehardened)

  1. To harden the surface of iron or steel by infusing carbon into the surface layer.
  2. (broadly) To make insensitive to hardship.

Questions about casehardened

What is casehardened the simple past and past participle of?
Casehardened is the simple past and past participle of caseharden.

Words near casehardened in the dictionary

  1. caseful
  2. casefuls
  3. casefy
  4. casefying
  5. caseharden
  6. casehardened
  7. casehardening
  8. casehardens
  9. caseic
  10. caseid
  11. caseids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: casehardened (page history and authors); caseharden (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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